How to connect sensor bar to PC

rikdegraaff · 02-28-2012, 05:35 AM #1

Hi All,

Like the title says, how do I connect a Wireless Sensor Bar to my PC, so that I can run Dolphin?

I've looked in some other threads, but can't find my answer.
I hope you'll can help me out.

Greetings from Holland,

Rik

**dannzen** · 02-28-2012, 05:53 AM #2

just power up your wii...
the sensorbar only emits light...

**AnyOldName3** · 02-28-2012, 06:04 AM #3

Yeah, it is just a source of two dots of IR light. you can use a wireless one, or even convert a wired one to draw power from USB.

rikdegraaff · (This post was last modified: 02-28-2012, 02:01 PM by rikdegraaff.)

Okay, so I don't have to "physically" connect it with my PC?
I mean with bluetooth or so...
It is just for the IR diodes?

**skid** · 02-28-2012, 02:39 PM #5

Right

**ulao** · 02-29-2012, 01:08 AM #6

The sensor bar only outputs light, it only requires power. The only way to make your PC do this, is to get a usb version. That or you can hack your existing bar adding a 12 volt power source ( as I did, pretty easy if you know what you are doing ).

**AnyOldName3** · 02-29-2012, 07:05 AM #7

Don't give it 12V, it only wants 5V, which is what it gets from USB. Not only would it be hard to get 12V out of a PC with the case intact, but it would also blow the LEDs.

**ulao** · (This post was last modified: 02-29-2012, 02:52 PM by ulao.)

Quote:Don't give it 12V,

My mistake I though we were talking about the wii bar, not a wireless one. The wii bar requires 12v.

ShadowFlash · 02-29-2012, 08:11 PM #9

Hmm, i've got LEDs from broken Wii sensor bar installed on my 23" СRT display front panel and they are powered from 5 volts.
So i think it will be better to start from 5v, and raise voltage only if 5v isn't enough. Also it will be better to get 5v from molex connector (red wire is +, black one is -), not from USB, because some of sensor bars require more than 500mA.

**ulao** · 03-01-2012, 12:23 AM **#10**

I had a lot of issue with my wireless battery powered. I made an adapter for USB and never hit the " not enough power" error. Though I will say it sucked as a wii bar. Once I got the OEM wii bar ( 12 volt ) and converted it from the wii plug to a 12 volt plug ( not hard at all ) my pointer problems were gone.